Nominate The Best Fine Art (Still Life) On A Weblog Inwards 2012

You are invited to NOMINATE an artwork on an fine art weblog for

The Making a Mark Prize (2012) for Best Picture - Still Life

This prize highlights in addition to celebrates excellence inwards creating pictures

which aid us to reverberate on how the pocket-size in addition to inanimate tin forcefulness out endure beautiful 

This weekend I'm publishing the Call for Entries for the Making H5N1 Mark - Best Picture Awards.

The 3rd Call for Entries invites nominations for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture - Still Life 2012

This postal service covers:

• eligibility of the artist
• eligibility of the artwork
• who tin forcefulness out nominate
• how to nominate

Previous winners of this award (created inwards 2009) - who are all ineligible for this year's honor - are:

• 2011: "Bottles, Bottles, Bottles #736" past times Lisa Daria (Lisa Daria's Everyday Painting) 
• 2010: Black Grapes #3 by James Neil Hollingsworth (Paintings inwards Oil)
• 2009:  Sometimes I experience you lot await correct through me by Sally Tharp (Sally is ikon today....

Bottles create got provided the plain of written report affair for ii winners.  Will drinking glass i time again characteristic inwards this year's winning notwithstanding life painting?

Last year's winner inwards this category equally good provided the runaway frontrunner inwards the poll to notice the The MAM Award for Best Picture of the Year on an Art Blog 2011

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Tell us all whose artwork involving portraiture or figures you lot appreciated inwards 2012.

Eligible artwork (drawings / paintings / prints):

• subject matter: the artwork must endure predominantly nearly a notwithstanding life - contrived or 'found', a narrative or an accident, large or small
• 2D artwork created using hands is eligible - artwork tin forcefulness out endure a ikon (in whatever media) or a drawing (in whatever media) or a fine fine art impress (using whatever method).  Photography is NOT eligible.
• Artwork must create got been completed inwards 2012 and has appeared on an fine art or illustrated weblog inwards 2012 in addition to prior to eighth Dec 2012
• Work is NOT eligible if it appears to endure i or to a greater extent than of the following:
• was non completed inwards 2012
• has non appeared on an fine art weblog inwards 2012
• over-reliant on a photograph non taken past times the artist
• subjected to lots of digital manipulation/tweaks (over in addition to higher upwards that needed to become far read 'true' on screen)
• a photograph
• For the artwork to endure shortlisted, the nominated creative individual must concur inwards writing to their move existence displayed on Making H5N1 Mark as business office of the shortlist (you tin forcefulness out seek their understanding after the nomination in addition to BEFORE the annunciation of nominations inwards a postal service on this weblog on 24th December)

Please endure careful to cheque the appointment of the artwork in addition to when it was posted to ensure eligibility.

Winner of Best Still Life on an Art Blog 2011
AND 
The MAM Award for Best Picture of the Year on an Art Blog 2011
Bottles, Bottles, Bottles #736
© Lisa Darier (Lisa Daria's Everyday Painting)

Eligible artists

• In 2012, whatever creative individual creating artwork predominantly involving notwithstanding life - in addition to posting their move to their personal fine art or illustrated weblog tin forcefulness out endure nominated.
• An creative individual who has NOT won this prize inwards the terminal 3 years (ie 2009-2011) - equally listed at the transcend of this post
• Only artists amongst independent fine art blogs operating inwards 2012 are eligible. (The awards exclude all corporate blogs and/or paid blogging.)
• An creative individual tin forcefulness out endure nominated to a greater extent than than i time - past times dissimilar people - for dissimilar works
• An creative individual tin forcefulness out endure nominated to a greater extent than than i time - past times dissimilar people - for the same work
• No canvassing is allowed (Canvassing = repeated mentions and/or touting for votes on other sites)
• Artists tin forcefulness out denote the awards on their weblog and/or the fact they create got been nominated 
• Artists tin forcefulness out reference on their fine art weblog only
• the fact they create got been shortlisted and 
• the postal service on this weblog where the vote is taking house .
• Neither the creative individual nor the individual nominating tin forcefulness out sheet for votes - canvassing volition number inwards disqualification. 

Who tin forcefulness out nominate

• Nominations are ONLY accepted from peers i.e. people amongst an active fine art blog. 
• In lodge to nominate you lot must create got an fine art or illustrated weblog in addition to endure capable of existence identified past times me.
• Anonymous nominations are non permitted. (This is purely to halt spammers equally I link to the blogs of all those who create got nominated inwards a afterwards postal service summarising the nominations!)
• An creative individual tin forcefulness out nominate their ain work 
• All nominations must endure inwards English

How to Nominate

To nominate - simply COMMENT ON THIS BLOG POST providing all the necessary details (see below) BEFORE 24th Dec 2012.

Your nominations MUST identify:

• the championship of the piece
• the holler of the artist,
• the size in addition to medium (if possible)
• the holler in addition to URL of the weblog (eg The Art Blog - http://artblog.blogspot.com)
• the date, championship in addition to URL of the weblog postal service inwards which the artwork appears (you MUST supply a the precise URL for the place of the postal service in addition to non simply the URL for the blog)
• SAY WHY YOU LIKE THE WORK - this flake is actually important so delight create the best you lot can. Remember that nominations are opened upwards in addition to transparent in addition to that it's skillful to percentage a genuine tribute to a slice of move you lot like
• You bespeak to enquire the creative individual if their move tin forcefulness out endure posted on my weblog - in addition to permit me know what the answer is. This tin forcefulness out come about after the nomination in addition to BEFORE 24th December.

What happens next

• Nominations closed simply after midnight on 23rd Dec 2012
• On 24th Dec 2012, a listing of all nominations is posted - including a link to the individual who nominated 
• I volition in addition to then select a shortlist of 3 industrial plant from the nominations 
• The shortlist will endure posted on 26th Dec 2012.  YOU volition endure invited to vote for your favourite artwork for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Artwork 2012 - Place
• This winner of the category prize is equally good eligible for the overall Making H5N1 Mark Prize for The Best Picture on an Art Blog inwards 2012.
• The winners volition endure announced on this weblog on 30th Dec 2012

Please equally good NOMINATE for other MAKING H5N1 MARK AWARDS - calls for entry volition endure posted this weekend in addition to side past times side week.

Please read Best Pictures in addition to Best Art Blogs 2012 - a review and consult the links below (to endure posted) to notice out to a greater extent than nearly the other Making H5N1 Mark Awards.

Invites to nominate for the remaining dissimilar categories associated amongst the Best Picture Award are listed below. The lodge of telephone telephone for entries for the remaining nominations this weekend is equally follows:

• The Making a Mark Prize (2012) for Best Picture - People - a formal portrait or a figurative artwork which is predominantly nearly a unmarried individual or grouping of people
• The Making a Mark Prize (2012) for Best Picture - Place - an artwork which is nearly a house - urban or rural, province or bounding main or sky, within or out
• The Making a Mark Prize (2012) for Best Picture - Nature - botanical, natural history or wildlife

Nominations for the other awards follow inwards the calendar week commencing twelfth December

• Making H5N1 Mark Nominations: Generating Art
• The Painting a Day Stickability Shield
• The Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup
• NEW IN 2011 - The Best Art Society Blog
• Making H5N1 Mark Nominations: Getting Out of the Studio 
• The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize
• The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy
• The Going Greener Gong
• Making H5N1 Mark Nominations: Learning nearly Art & the Art Business
• The FAQs in addition to Answers Really Useful Medal
• The Make Me Think Gong
• The Best Book past times an Art Blogger Blue Ribbon
• Making H5N1 Mark Nominations: The Home Front
• The Most Gorgeous Mouthwatering (MGM) Studio of the Year
• The Art Innovation of the Year Award
• “The Moose” - the honor for the best creature inwards an illustrated blog

Links:

• The Making H5N1 Mark Art Blog Awards 
• Best Pictures in addition to Best Art Blogs 2012 - a review
• The Making H5N1 Mark Awards 2006-2011

Still Life - Resources for Artists
Find out nearly the history of notwithstanding life fine art in addition to how to pigment a notwithstanding life. This site provides links to relevant information, guidance in addition to resources for artists.

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